It Is Better To Be Thought Perverse

A Man Who Flatters A Woman Hopes Either To Find Her A Fool Or To Make Her One.

Of What Violences, Murders, Depredations, Have Not The Epic Poets, From All Antiquity, Been The Occasion, By Propagating False Honor, False Glory, And False Religion?

The Unhappy Never Want Enemies.

But Let Not Those Worthy Young Women, Who May Think Themselves Destined To A Single Life, Repine Over-much At Their Lot; Since, Possibly, If They Have Had No Lovers, Or Having Had One, Two, Or Three, Have Not Found A Husband, They Have Had Rather A Miss Than A Loss, As Men Go.

The Laws Were Not Made So Much For The Direction Of Good Men, As To Circumscribe The Bad.